Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 7

ml e. In those boyhood days th;“::‘tz we knew of were such as i:’:‘r’u: oil and give a light hardly bright-| er than a firefly’s, or such “as burned “camphene” and were about as likely to blow up as to Turn out quietly. We used candles, in the main, .and Hghted them Wwith wisps of paper or splinters of pine at the kitchen stove, because “liclifer’ matches, which had just been ipvented,i were too expensive for any but emergen- Cy uSe, - v!u}n : w*tthlunumm several days with. Dtnstlun ral/;t.‘ws qu\ I”ll Tecovering from a se- Joseph's ntf !np e : ma to several in the church ayville, given by Rev. John R. Pratt ‘of Brook- Al these changes within the eas¥| Mrg Robert Loring I8 staying in Wor- |I¥n Saturday -ven!-: was well attanded memory of seventy years! Not only all| cester manu days while her youngest | 474 enjoyed by all these, but scores of ‘others which Ilganghter Mary, ia mm‘ hor heaith| M. and Mrs. Wiiliam .m-vu were cali- haven't the time or you the patiende fOF |4t the Memarisl hospital. having had an ('S in Weaterly, R. I, Saturday. recalling. And today the airship, the|ororat m"‘& Rev.. Truman Ohilds visited Rev. Rob- wireless radio service, the farm tractof| “ciarence Frances of ‘ie"m R 1., ert Humphrey in Canterbury wnd in the same relation to the [ vigited hi parents, Mr. and Mrs. John un Flor llum !n funetioning of daily life whieh the au- Frapces, Sunday, obile, the telephone and the silo held | A 'Tane Baboock, who has betn in w er. w uarter of a century ago. Moosup - several months, m‘ Sunday | Were éflfla‘ over !ltnng Blu Tast W What will they be doing for the Worll {\/itn" her ister, Mrs. Mary . Loring. ying coms. "Pear.and peagh trees are in full Mrs. George Galup visited her da a quarter of a gentury hence? What| nps Thomas Weaver children, ter, Mrs. Louis Ingalls, in Danlelson jast will they be doing for the farms? John apd M ret, W h visit. I hear farmers on all siden wy that | oos Saturay. T oTe Nopwich v week and ;o see Arthur Gallup at the Day Kii ospital in Putnam. She tractors can never displace horses for| afies Bmmg Greenhalgh has od many forms of farm work. Perhaps not, | 4 ding, B return k o Reading, Mass, having spent a week o flflfl. 5 F 5 ““. ol Frigk, |- reston has retyrned. to |1 ¥ Mm“r ST e s Hermop & But it 't twenty-fiva years gince the| g har home. ass,, after nchfl a week' ary Ma- Tanner, John and hn BSayles ud THE DIFFERENCE JUST A FEW DECADES MAKE. (Written Spediilly For The Bulletin,) “What should you say wasg the pro- portion of horse-drawn te motor-driven convictioR, that automobiles; would never | westhoro, displace horses ' for road work. I was one who had that belief, so I know! it twenty-five years ago! Certainly not thirty years ago. At that time the sight ~—and sound—of his contraption's ap- same ers were asserting, with equal| ™ ayes Eqj rsonage mm at *he comber. vehicles on the average highwhy?" Ask that question of a dogen different proach sent all the drivers on the high- way hunting side-roads or farm lanes to escape into for safety, and started even has taken but a little over two decades to prove that we were wrong, then. I'm not so sure but that the eoming two de- the C,_E. socléty Friday svening. Maurice Ton'sy wm De- th Jeader of ence Gall tp Putnam and ed on l\ w!\m‘l! An people and you'd be apt to ‘get a dozen different answers. No two would con- cur. One might say “One In ten,” “while another would think the proportion was greater, and & third might reckon it less than that, What's the use pt guessing about it, snyway, when there still remain toll- bridges on which toll-takers keep care- fy! count of the number and kind of ve- hicles passing? A week ago The Bulletin published the The u%gl);ou’ training class is to meet at Mrs. iomas Dixon's this (Thursday) eveping. B The W. €. T. U. meeting - was— held Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Everett Ladd's. Rey. Mary Macomber was in wuu- mantic Tuesday to attend the Windham County Assooiation of Churehes. Willls Torrey and Mrs. Mortimer Stetson were chesen delegates to represent the lgea) ‘church. cades will show an improvement in trac- tors equal to that of a similar period in the past with autos, We read of frequent fatal accidents with alrships, and most of us are in- clined to doubt their practicability as a means of transportation. But several lines have been in regular overation for more than a year, now, in England and France, for the carrying of passengers and frelght, and statisties show that nme meeting was held r-ldw evening. Farmers are m-n!u their work. ————— YANTIC 3 e?" ens of New York has been wendtuu' dl!l at hn‘m here. Marion were nw tt the 33d an the Willimaatic x the horses pasturing in roadside fields off towards tl tall timber with snorts of terror. Sometimes, he told me, when the inevitable breakdown came on & lonely country road, the nearest farmer to whom he appealed for a team to draw him home would drive him off the farm with & pitelifork and highly explosive in- dignation. Yet mow the horse, which then ruled the highway by a proportion of at least! sary Teunion at ormal school IIWNU § & they have been as safe as railroads or| Clarence Daggett had his M Mis ¥y Hammitt of Danlelson was April figures for the traffic over the(a million to one, is only a minority of |automobiles. Moreover, they are being damaged in Moosup Saturday evening w::k" guest Mrs. H. J. Gibbs, NOW PLAYING AT THE BROADWAY Thames river toll bridge. These figures|one in fifty. The same farmer who was |improved. all the time. They are stead- ded the Willimantic Normal \ £9 John Fletcher was riding with him when an automobile caliided with, the truck. Mr. Fletcher had two fingers' injured. The Y, M. C. A. members Wil attend chureh in a body Sunday morning. Henry Knight of Danielson was a vis- | itor here Sunday. Mrs. Albert Dawley of Daulelson has been a recent visitor®here, where she formerly Hved. Mrs. Edward Gallagher, Mary and Gertrude Gallagher .!peu! Saturday in Providence. Mrs. Charles Dearborn has - returned after a few weeks' stay with friends in Norwich. * Mrs. Edith Tiilinghast of Willimantic has been spending several days at Fred | whow that, during April, there passed over that bridge G696 horse-dfawn and 26,7860 motor-driven vehicles. It is reasonable to suppose that these figures are fairly representative of pres- ent-day travel. The proportion they show would doubtless be about that of other bridges and of other roads. They ndicate that almost fifty automobiles or motoreyeles pass a given point for every horse-drawn cart or carriage, I don't know whem I have chanced lnvh:' al school Pw Mr. and ‘Mrs. J. Louis Oliver of South Manchester were guests . 'and Mrs. Henry Hamilton for a brief uuu Sunday. Mrs. W. W, Weeks and daughter of wmmu\nm have been spending a brief | time with Mre. 3. Weaks. . M, P. J. McHale of New York is the guest of Mrs, Stephen O'Heamn. Thomaa Pfieffer. who has been for the past two weeks in Putnam, spent Sunday with relatives in Worcester. Migs Mildred Pendleton has retus from a week end htay Wwith friends at @roton Long Point. . Mr, and Mrs. R. V, Congdon and chil- dren, Raymond, Jrl, and Flerence, were W. Tillinghast's. ests Sunday of Mr..and Mrs. Charles Mrs. Bpilard has been very ill with|N. Congdon of Stafford Springs. preumonia and remains under the care of C. S. McHale of South Manchester a registered nurse. was a recent guest at his home here, The body of Mrs. Jenmie Bennett, 80, Timothy Holeran of South Manchester wife of KEdwin Bennett, was brought | Waa a recent guest of local friends. from New Britain Saturday afterncon{ Miss Katherine MeCarthy of South for bulial in the family lot at Evergreen | Manchester is spending the week at her cemetery. She was bern here, the daugh- | heme in Franklin. ter of Mr, and Mrs. Daniel Wheeler. She at first disposed to oppose the right of & motor car to any use of the roads whatever ,now drives his own flivver— or his own Hudson super-six—to town because lt'a easler and quicker than to “hitch up.” Moreover, he looks with considerable disapproval on any chance horse he may meet which shows. any signs of trepidation oyer the roar of his exhaust. He is inclined to think that people shouldn’t be allowed to drive such dum-fool critters on the common high- way. All of which is simply another evi- dence that things are not what they used to be; that the world is changing; that | we are changing with it; and that we've got to face a future strangely if not fear- somely unlike the past which we've grown used to. It isn't only the natom®bile. I can re- member ag if it were yesterday when the first mowing maehine was turned loose .|on this town, and shall never forget the Perhaps the |utter contempt with which the practical had fully appreciated them |farmers of that day rezarded its clum- But you and I are just commen |sy. expensive and inefficient work. The ily growing, faster and safer, as well. Tha fatal aocidents of which we read are usually incurred in experimental flights, trying out some new device or attempte ing some spectacular “stunt.” It may sound absurd to some., but I, for ene. should not dare call it imposs!- ,ble that, twenty-five years hence, the -airship' may be as common and as ser- viceableghis the automobile is now, twen- ty-five years after it was first manufac- tured, We old nncw. have got used to the world, as it . was. We're not wholly com- fortable with it as it is, because it is so different, already. But we want to go mighty slow in saying what things are impossible in the mearby future. We'v2 seen so many changes in the recent past that our experlence should keep us hum- bly silent as to comina possibilities, Of course, we can’t any of us tell. The world may be going to the devil—or it may not be. I know some old-fellows who thought. twenty-five years ago, that it was heading in that direetion, then, But it hasn't arrived. yet, despite their At 2.45 p. m. Tuesday the Yantle autc [ ehemical was called tg 112 Otrobando road to put out a fire in the home of David Wilson. The chimney had become alog; with soet, which took fire, and the blaze burned through the woodwork In the kitghen and caused s:me damage. Twe hand tanks of chemical were used. The house is owned by Mr. Ferguson of Boswell avenue. Saturday night one of the government automubiles from the submarine base Was paesing through the village and the driver noticed a fire just as he got in front of the fire engine hall, so help was given by the firemen. One tank of chem- ical was used to’ put out the fire and no alarm was given, Sp) plowing is greatly delayed. Miss Anna Pounch has returned to her home in Norwich Town aftg a stay at Pine Tree cottage. BOLTON NOTCH Ellery Strong from are of his un apon any statement which has impressed me more strikingly than thfs, shipperly changed.” that We say enough that “times have And we sing flippantly enough “them days are gone forever!” But n a cold-blooded toll-taker on a ge steps forward with a sheet of verified figures to prove that forty-nine out of every fifty vehicles using his part »f the nighway are motor-driven and only one in T8y s horse-drawn, why, then we begin really to appreciate thin; That is, some of us do. imco’ wise betore. ed to her hom The state road oil this week Mrs. Clara Hotch hospital Friday, cap, * Among monly ust ous natural resins of Fhe man deesn't live who feels at | esse in a room where two women are folks, and we have to have ideas pound- »d inte our heads, as a rule, Why, It lsn't mueh, if any, over twen- ly-five years ago that an enterprsing and somewhat “sporty” resident of the neighboring city bought and brought to t the first “horseless carrlage” which had ever chug<hugged its streets. The machine was an object of wonder to the Beyw, of contumely to adults, of terror to horses—and of unending expense to Ity owner. After he had owned it three months and made numerous attempts at cross-country driving, he told me that he hadn't ever thus far been able to get back to town under his own power. In- variably something had broken down and he had to requisition a team to tow me. But he was a hopeful and t of critter, and protested going to keep trying till he drive two miles out, turn and ecome home unalded. That ery highest achievement which re himself ag within the range And that was nmot much more than A Portland, Tnd.— becawga of pains. horse-drawn ‘wheel-rake came in still Ja- ter. The riding or sulky plow was still longer delayed. The disk harrow was unknown. There was one horse-fork in town-but, as it took longer to get it in working order than it did to throw off a load of hay with pitchforks, it wasn't much used. When I was a small bey there was just One icehouse in the vil- lage. It wasn't a very successful ome. The ice in it seldom lasted longer than the Fourth of July. But it was a marvel to us country lads to know that the Squire—as we always called the rich owner—could, sometimes, have ige to¢ool his “switchel” during the earlier days of haying. Now, practioally every farmhouse within my knowledge has its own ici house, its mowing machines and hor: rakes and sulky plows of course, its tele- phone and Its “garage” usually adapted out of a former henhouse or woodshed, Moreover, a goodly proportion of them are lighted with electric lights, in place of the old kerosene lamps. “Lamps” do clock to gain or lose. with irregularity and constipation and would often have to lie down I eay? There's another “T was troubled Balhmo!‘e, tremendous | three days. LARGE number of women’s ailments are not-surgical ones. Serious displacements or radical changes have not yet taken place. A tiny part in a fine clock may become loose and cause the If not attended to in time, the part ma fall from its place and cause serious trouble. women’s ailments, they start from simple causes; but if allowed to continue, produce serious conditions. When the warning symptoms are “first noted, take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to relieve the present trouble- some ailment, and to prevent the development of serious trouble. Md.— months I suffered with severe backache and general weakness, jdoleful prognostications. While there's life, there's hope. Looking back from our present standpoint, we can see that the forebadings of the past were not war- ranted, while that same past's wildest imaginings in the fields of diseovery and invention were far shart of the aetuality. ¥m inelined te think that, as it has been, so it will he. ;The wisest thing for us old chaps te do is to keep our mouth shut and our eyes open. By that conduct, judiciously perse- vered in, we may, if we live long enough. see a good many surprisés—and be spared the - necessity of apologizing for having ever denied their possibility! ) THE FARMER. Torrington.—The first death of a citi- aen of the Connecticut Junior Republie in the 17 years of its existence occurred May 8th at the Charlotte Hungerford hospital here, that of Walter Webster, 15, of Middletown, who had been at the re- public about a year. Death was due to erysipelas and followed an illness of only So it is wit “For _ several 1§ Thia 1 €ies ok ok didiins b One Sunday my Veg sunt wAis visiting us and she said her girls took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound and got well, so mother said she guessed she would let me try it. It is doing me good and I praise it highly. "You are welcome to use this letter as a testi- monial.”—STELLA NEwtoNn, R, R. No. 8, Portland, Ind. could not sleep comfortably at night for pains in my back. 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